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Speak-o-phone: Turn your PA amp into a record-cutter! (1940)

Records on Acetate or Aluminum discs!  Click here for more info on this early recording service/hardware manufacturer.  

12 years ago

Popular Science: Basic Radio Techniques c. 1946

Nothing too notable in this book; just love the cover graphic.

12 years ago

1943: A Dictionary of Radio Terms

From "A Dictionary of Radio Terms," published by the Allied Radio Corp., 1943.

12 years ago

1940: Radioman Romance

Was electronics repair ever a 'sexy' profession?  "RADIO NEWS" March 1940 seems to make this case.  Wishful thinking, I imagine...…

12 years ago

Magnecord INC archival factory-film now available online

Thanks to H. Layer: A never-before-available Magnecord, INC factory-film circ 1955 (???) is now available on YouTube.  These are the…

12 years ago

Beyond Four Tracks

Sansui six-track cassette format c. 1989 Otari Compact 8-track 1/2" format c. 1989.   Also, SECK mixer. Toa 8-track cassette format…

12 years ago

Ladies and Gentlemen of 1989 (pop music division)

Cyborg chick with some sort of midi-synchonizer I play the keyboards (for Bon Jovi) (pointy guitars are) impossible to (avoid)…

12 years ago

Wendy Carlos in her home studio 1989

Although I don't necessarily agree with super-aggressive enforcement of certain copyright laws, OR the fact that she tried to sue…

12 years ago

Live This Wednesday 6.25.12 New Haven CT: Tomorrow Tomorrow

This Wednesday at BAR in New Haven CT I will be performing as part of Tomorrow Tomorrow, a new group…

12 years ago

Diggin

Picked up a few interesting pieces today.  Above, an Altec 660B microphone circa 1958.  I already had a 660A (same…

12 years ago